Veron The Reviewer

Recently, I began reading some of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, namely "The Colour Out Of Space", "The Call Of Cthulhu", and "The Dunwich Horror". All three stories are rather disturbing and frightening, with their vague and often horrifying descriptions of the otherworldly creatures chilling me to the core. "The Call Of Cthulhu", widely regarded as one of Lovecraft's best works, concerns three separate incidents revolving around an ancient deity in the sea, Cthulhu, who has a cult dedicated to his revival. The statuettes of the monster and the cult's attempts to revive him, forms the centerpieces of the story. Cthulhu is only vaguely seen in the final incident, in which he is nearly accidentally woken by the crew of a passing ship, and this brief, succinct description of him and his abilities are enough to inspire a deep sense of terror. "The Dunwich Horror", another one of his most beloved stories, chronicles the strange ...

"Dark Matter", a novel with a simple yet intriguing title, focuses on parallel universes and explores the path not taken in life. The story starts off in the suburban home of Jason, a former scientist who is happy with his quiet life with his family but also often wonders about what his life could have been like if he had continued his gruelling research. He gets his answer when a man in a mask abducts and drugs him. When he wakes up, he is revealed to have been missing for weeks, but when he realizes that the people keeping him in a lab have their own ulterior motives, he breaks out, and enters a confusing world in which he never married, but has obtained astounding success in his pursuit of science, culminating in his invention of a mysterious box that can allow access to alternate universes. He eventually realizes that the Jason of this world was the person who abducted him, so he could get a chance at living his life as a happily married man with a loving family. And so...

Having always had a love of films, and action films in particular, I decided to watch Mission: Impossible - Fallout,  which is touted as one of the best action films of the decade. I'm happy to say, it did not disappoint at all.  The film starts with a mission to recover missing plutonium that can be used to make highly-destructive bombs, but the mission quickly goes awry, and what follows is an hunt for  the plutonium and the masterminds who plan to use it for a devious plot to threaten the world. The film can be considered the epitome of the summer blockbuster action film, executed near-perfectly. The action is thrilling and relentless from start to finish, the film is tightly plotted (all the more impressive considering they only had a rough 30-page outline when they began to shoot the film), with many surprising twists and turns, and the dialogue is brilliant, focusing on meaningful character interactions, most of which build off of the events and character beats of...